Although the PhDs can integrate their mandatory graduate school programmes with HERILAND training modules and events, all have access to the rich training programmes of the graduate schools of the academic partners and also to the training of the non-academic partners. These offer, amongst others, complementary skill courses which allow the PhD fellows to prepare for a professional career; e.g. teaching, research integrity/ethics, audience-focused presentations, scientific writing, grant writing, interdisciplinarity, project management and leadership, GIS-analysis, remote sensing, spatial design, language and multi-media.